The methodology of the course will combine lectures with seminars. The aim of the theory sessions is to provoke reflection and encourage critical thinking, engaging students in tasks that go beyond simple memorisation, working mainly with challenge-based learning. Seminars are a way of approaching an active learning model, an essential complement to the information obtained in the theoretical classes. Classroom exercises (reading seminars, presentation of conflict analysis in the field of criminology) will be combined with the study and analysis of real cases.

In the theory sessions we will have the collaboration of professionals from the Subdirecció general de Reparació i Execució Penal a la Comunitat and with police professionals who are experts in citizen mediation.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

1. System of compulsory attendance to classes

a) Attendance is mandatory. Professors will register absences for each session, which can be justified or unjustified. Absences can only be justified for reasons of illness, other important inconveniences and for academic reasons previously authorized by the teaching staff.

b) If a student does not attend at least 80% of teaching, he or she cannot be evaluated.

c) Justified absences cannot be counted negatively. The professor must enable the student to recover the work done in class in the case of excused absence. This kind of justified absences must be documented. Justified absences are those resulting from situations which prevent students from attending educational activities, such as unexpected illness or similar situations. Teachers may consider also justified absences the situations in which students have to attend (and document) other training activities of the degree.

2. Requirements to pass the course

A minimum mark of 5 will be required for each of the course's learning outcomes in order to pass the course. The weight in the final grade of each of the activities is marked in the learning outcomes scheme.

Students will be assessed if they have completed a set of activities, the weight of which is equivalent to at least 2/3 of the total qualification for the course. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the teacher of the course may consider the student as not assessable.

Students will have to submit three pieces of individual evidence of learning from the course, a final multiple-choice exam, and a group assignment:

EV1 Osgood's contributions to conflict resolution, consisting of reading a text and answering questions about the applicability of his contributions to a real conflict.

EV2 Gender perspective and conflict transformation, consisting of reading a text and answering questions about the applicability of its contributions to a real conflict.

EV3 Psychosocial analysis of a contemporary conflict, consisting of choosing a contemporary conflict and conducting a psychosocial analysis of it and proposals for intervention to the rest of the class.

EV4 Group work. Students must choose a real conflict and use one of the conflict transformation techniques studied in class. The work has different phases: a presentation in class of the conflict proposal and its transformation (theory, role-play, etc.), evaluation or design of the evaluation of the intervention, and presentation of a written report of the experience and its relationship to the theory.

EV5. Final exam in the form of a multiple-choice test.

EV6. Quick test after each topic covered in the course.

3. Resit

If a student fails any of the activities, he or she will have a possibility of a new evaluation by doing a new activity at the end of the classes.

4. Consequences of fraud

A student who copies or attempts to copy in an exam will receive a 0 in the subject and will lose the right to re-evaluation. A student who submits an assignment that shows signs of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments in their assignment will receive a 0 and a warning. If the behaviour is repeated, the student will fail the course (0) and lose the right to retake it.

Except in cases of force majeure, delays in the submission of learning evidence will not be accepted. Students will receive a mark of 0 for any practical work that is not submitted.

AI restrictions: For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information fencing, text correction or translations. The student will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated by this technology, specify the aspects and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The non-transparency of the use of AI in this evaluable activity is considered a lack of academic honesty and may entail a partial or total penalty in the activity grade, or major sanctions in serious cases.

5. Late presentations

They are not accepted, except in cases of force majeure. The student will get a zero in the undelivered practice.

6. Punctuality

Classes start on time. Except in duly justified cases, admission to class is not allowed once it has started. It is also not permitted to leave class before the scheduled end time.

7. Single assessment system

To pass the single assessment, students must complete the following learning activities:

1. EV1. A practical exercise on nonviolent communication incorporating a gender perspective, which is worth 30% of the grade. This exercise involves recording a role-play in which a conflict is presented and the student applies nonviolent communication to transform the situation.

2. Submit EV3 (the same EV3 as the rest of the students).

3. Take the multiple-choice exam with the rest of the students. The exercises for the single assessment must be submitted via email on the day of the exam.

The materials for the single assessment include the presentations given in lectures and seminars, as well as the required (and recommended) readings listed in the course syllabus.